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Basic Help

There are lots of good cameras brands you can purchase. I use Fuji and Nikon cameras, for studio use and little cameras for vacations. The first thing I look for is one that takes 2a batteries. The reason being is that if you have a battery that only fits that camera once it dies you're done taking pictures till you recharge it. 2A batteries can be bought almost anywhere and are inexpensive especially if you get rechargeable ones. A 6mp size camera will do fine for most snap shot needs. Make sure you have extra batteries when you go out shooting and an extra memory card.

Printing your pictures

Here's one I hear all the time. "We just got a new printer at home so we can print all these pictures on that." The printer companies make billions off their expensive ink cartridges for their $49 printers. Take your pictures to the 1 hour photo and you'll get better, cheaper, longer lasting prints in most cases.

Download the pictures either through the cable that came with your camera or through a card reader. Back up your pictures to a CD or better yet 2 CDs and store them in a safe place. Now you can edit out the pictures you want to take in and get printed. Put just those ones onto a CD and take that in to the 1 hour photo or you can send them in online to get them printed and they send them right to your home. At the 1 hour photos you can do other stuff such as cropping or turning your pictures into black and white.

A few other tips

Use the flash indoors to avoid blurry pictures.

Don't take too many pictures. Don't take 5 pictures of the same exact thing. (leave that to us pros) If you get too many to sort through you will never do it and then will never get any prints made. Then one day when your computer hard drive croaks and you haven't backed up your pictures you will have no pictures and no picture files.

Be careful deleting bad pictures in your camera, if you hit the wrong button it can erase everything.

If you do happen to delete everything off your memory card there are software programs or companies that can retrieve that information even if the card has been reformatted. Keep that in mind if you've taken pictures you don't want anyone to see, they can still be on your memory card or computer hard drive even though you have deleted them.

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